FC1 -> FC2 upgrade problem...

From: Mike Cisar (mlists_at_starmania.net)
Date: 07/17/04

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Date: Sat, 17 Jul 2004 10:11:45 -0600

    Have been having a major issue trying to upgrade from FC1 to FC2 and I'm
    hoping someone on the list may have some insight. This server is running
    software raid1 with two identical IDE 20 Gig drives. Tried to do the
    upgrade and the installer flashed a "inconsistant partition table... this
    error may safely be ignored... etc" message (only once, not twice as I have
    seen in the past when working with software RAID systems). I ignored the
    error, and the installer chugs along, gets past "transferring install image
    to HD". Everything seems to be going smoothly, then an error that the
    install has "terminated unexpectedly it is safe to reboot your machine".
    Luckily this situation has been non-destructive and when I reboot I'm back
    to my FC1 without any problems.

    There are really no errors popped up on the screen indicating the exact
    cause of the error (and I can't see any install log gettign created
    anywhere), so I am making the big assumption that the error is caused by the
    partition table issue.

    Being software RAID, I broke the mirror, zero-filled the drive, jotted down
    the CHS information the maxtor utility returned (32xxx/16/63), verified that
    these were the same numbers the system bios was seeing on auto-detect, hard
    coded them onto the kernel command line just to be sure. Then went in with
    fdisk and created a partition structure and then re-added the newly
    partitioned drive into the mirror. Once that was complete, I repeated the
    same process on the other of the two drives.

    Booted into the installer and got an exact repeat of the first attempt,
    including the partition table warning. I'm really puzzled as to why
    re-creating the partition tables on both drives, with fdisk, under Linux has
    not resulted in a partition table that Linux is happy with. Also puzzled
    that it is only complaining once, as if it's only seeing issue with one of
    the two drives (although the error message gives no indication of which
    drive it has issue with)... these are both identical drives, same brand,
    same model, same geometry reported by Maxtor diagnostics.

    Any suggestions are appreciated, I'd really rather avoid having to do a
    total reinstall on this system if at all possible.

    Cheers,
    >>>>> Mike <<<<<< 

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